By now you all should have switched to reusable cloth bags at the
grocery store. Stop making excuses and buy them. Most chain grocery
stores sell them now and they are cheap. I love mine. In order to
remember them each time I go I just put them back in the car after I
have unloaded my groceries so they are already in the car for my next
trip.
The other benefit to keeping them in your car is that they
work for more places than the grocery store. We have been focused on
using them in food stores only but how about bringing them along next
time you go to buy other items? Stopping at Target or your local drug
store for just a small thing will guarantee a plastic bag will be in
your future unless you choose no bag or start to bring your own.
I
started writing this post the other day and I was pleased to read this
morning in the paper that China has decided to ban plastic bags.
Read the story here.
I think this is amazing. My prediction right now is we will soon see an
increase in other countries taking large strides in environmental
changes and the US will be left in the dust. All our recent bitching
about how bad China is will come back to haunt us when we are the last
country to make any major changes because of what I believe to be a
lazy approach to change for fear of people thinking their rights are
being taken away. Now is the time to step up people.
I firmly
believe that the small changes each household can make will add up
and make a difference but this bottom up approach isn't flying with me
as the only answer anymore. It is time the US starts the from the top
approach. Yes consumers can say alot with their buying power but it my
opinion it is now up to the major companies to make changes. Stop
making bad cleaning products that we know hurt our environment and our
health. I think the companies are finally catching on to this green
movement and some are trying to cash in on it by making a more natural
version of their chemical products. It will be interesting to see how
it all pans out.
For now I am all for banning those stupid
plastic bags. If people really are so lazy they can't carry their own
bag with them we have truly reached an all time low.
